Stagecoach in the Highlands from Highland Country Buses - the transitional days May 2008 and onwards

17th May 2008

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The Stagecoach Group purchased Highland Country Buses and Orkney Coaches from the Rapson Group on Friday May 16th 2008. This collection covers the transitional days of the former Highland Country network from May 17th 2008 as Stagecoach assess and develop the fleet and network. Ironically, the first Highland Country bus I caught up with in Stagecoach ownership was Enviro 232 with new livery vinyls for the Culloden Battlefield visitor attractions, complete with Rapson branding - this bus had run in allover dealer white since delivery in 2007.

New Stagecoach group fleetnumbers are used throughout although these numbers were not used initially. From August 25th 2008, the Highland Country depot at Seafield Road in Inverness was closed and the allocation transfered to Bluebird's depot nearby in Burnett Road. From that date, both fleets operated under Bluebird "O" discs and the former Highland vehicles are shown in the Stagecoach Blubird Inverness collection.

These are all digital images taken with a Panasonic DMC_FZ30 digital camera

Thanks for visiting - haste ye back.